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By Jim McElhatton (Photo/Susan Hale Thomas) The biggest play in the history of T.C. Williams boys soccer began with 28 minutes and 59 seconds to go in the second half against Washington-Lee on Sunday. The two [...]

By Jim McElhatton (File Photo) For decades, Stanford Lavine was the dean of sports medicine in the Washington area, treating a few of the biggest names in professional sports, including members of Washington’s professional football team. Naturally, [...]

By Erich Wagner (Photo/Erich Wagner) When MIT doctoral student Tyler DeWitt finished a lesson on bacteria and mold-derived antibiotics, questions from local students rolled in. But most were not about the unseen organisms he had spent [...]

By Erich Wagner (File Photo) Students at the George Washington middle schools will soon be studying and eating lunch with their peers across the hallway. The Alexandria City School Board voted unanimously February 20 to consolidate [...]

By Erich Wagner (File Photo) The T.C. Williams teacher who in October admitted making sexual advances toward multiple female students was sentenced to a year in prison Thursday. Steven Miarer, 38, pleaded guilty on October 31 [...]

By Anna Harris (File Photo) Students at John Adams Elementary School are spreading holiday cheer among the nation’s military community this year — one card at a time. Organized by the American Red Cross, Mail for Heroes [...]

By Erich Wagner (File Photo) Updated: 10:40 p.m. Members of the city’s school board voted to accept the resignation of Alexandria City Public Schools superintendent Morton Sherman, just days before the first day of school on [...]

By Kenric Ward | Watchdog.org Virginia Bureau FREDERICKSBURG — Hours after Virginia released a mixed bag of standardized test scores, a national education expert called for the firing of the state superintendent of instruction and charged that families [...]

By Erich Wagner While officials are pleased with recent progress at the embattled Jefferson-Houston School, newly released Standards of Learning test results suggest the institution will be denied — once again — state accreditation. The Virginia [...]

By Julia Brouillette An excited crowd of Cora Kelly students and staff gathered behind the school for the unveiling of their long-awaited new playground June 19. Work on the playground, which has spent years in planning, [...]